"I had never done that sort of work, and it was not the right job for me.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

Azalea Adair told me she had never traveled or even attended school.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

"I was very lucky because my parents never discouraged me.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

I loved the old man. He had never wronged me.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

"I was raised on a small farm in southern Indiana and Dad tried to teach me and my brothers that you should never try to be better than someone else.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

I loved someone who would never love me back.

VOA: special.2009.07.25

I never found enough to make me rich.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

They never said you can't do it because you're a woman, so it never occurred to me that I couldn't do it" But she says things are starting to look better for women composers.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

"I remember when my daddy first gave me that gun, he told me that I should never point at anything in the house, and that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted, if I could hit them.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

I live with Him -- I see his face -- I go no more away For Visitor -- or Sundown-- Death's single privacy Dreams -- are well -- but Waking's better, If One wake at Morn -- If One wake at Midnight - better -- Dreaming -- of the Dawn -- This is my letter to the World That never wrote to me-- The simple News that Nature told-- With tender Majesty In those years, Dickinson seems to have found her "voice" as a poet.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

"I'm just doing what I know and I'm doing what you taught me." "I never taught you to be a thief."

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

"Let me say this as clearly as I can: The United States is not and will never be at war with Islam,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

"Last year,he chastised me a little bit for taking so much risk and just never really thinking about what I was doing."

VOA: standard.2010.02.09